so i was talking to my aunt on the phone over the weekend, and when i mentioned that i had the house all to myself, she became quite concerned. “you musn’t forget to eat,” she advised. i may have laughed out loud. and then i told her that i had made wontons the night before, and i had a brown bag full of bagels.

high on the carb rush from our saturday bondi bagelthon, deborah and i returned to the city and trawled the aisles of harris farm at broadway, coming away with such treats as a quarter of a cabbage, a tray of oyster mushrooms, a bag of bean sprouts, a punnet of strawberries, a wedge of peppery pecorino, two ruby red grapefruit and a bag of small salty pretzels.

for the premium sweet and salty snack, the pretzels will be dipped in lindt 70%. rather than, y’know, the easter clearance chocolate i pounced on in the shopping centre foyer: a kilo of quality milk chocolate for $10… but that is really a story for another time.

the mushrooms, cabbage and sprouts went into the inaugural homemade saturday night wonton noodle soup (mushroom broth), and made me very happy.

the strawberries, i am eating right now, after my third pork fried rice dinner since friday; there was a lot of pork mince leftover from my wonton-making exercise. but last night saw an addition of shredded cabbage and bean sprouts, and tonight, lovely, crunchy, greeeeen celery.

i discovered this afternoon, that my local supermarket sells individual wands of trimmed celery! this is perfect, because no-one else in this house eats celery, and anyway, a whole bunch never fits into my crisper drawer. at $3.98 a kilo, three batons cost me all of 67c. sliced finely and fried with minced ginger and garlic, it was a delicious addition to an already satisfying meal.

who doesn’t love fried rice?